Nathaniel Drisker Jr.

Nathaniel Drisker Jr., 83, made his transition on June 10, 2013. The celebration of his life will be held Saturday at 9:30 a.m. at Victory Baptist Church, 816 Valley St., Vauxhall, N.J. Interment is at Graceland Memorial Park, Kenilworth, N.J. Visitation is on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the church. Arrangements are by Whigham Funeral Home. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., Nathaniel was a resident of Newark, N.J., for 50 years. He was a 1956 graduate of Benedict College. Nathaniel retired from Wyeth Laboratories, New York, and was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Nathaniel was a member of Victory Baptist Church and a former member of Calvary Baptist Church. He was the beloved husband of the late Corrine E. Jackson Drisker; loving father of Dale E., Bernard N., and the late Judy A. Drisker; son of the late Nathaniel Drisker Sr. and Minnie Flowers; brother of the late Mattie Boodie; grandfather of four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Nathaniel is also survived by a host of relatives and friends.